Level Two
2 Most other types of unit of quantity lose their ¦¢ when combined with any numeral (except in pedantic style), thus:
,Õ¥¢° Ú Õ¥Ú ,±¡ § Ú Õ¥Ú ,±¥ Õ Ú Õ¥Ú â Ò ² Õ¥Ú ,¨Õ¢¥ § Ú Õ¥Ú ,¥¢¢§ Ú Õ¥Ú three dollars, meters, kilos, miles, million, percent
Õ¥Ú ‘three The word Ú¢ ‘person’ is treated in the same way: Ú¢ Ú is heard in both the masculine plural and the persons’. However, ¥° Ú feminine singular: ¥° Ú ÚÕ¥Ú ,¦¢¥ ° Ú Ú Õ¥Ú
three shekels
64–8 NOUN TYPES (MISHKALIM) 64 Action nouns, e.g. LeðËÌ ì ‘renewal’ To form nouns denoting actions (‘destruction, confinement, playing . . .’), Hebrew is generally able to use five fixed noun patterns, corresponding closely and fairly systematically to five of the seven binyanim. These action nouns have already been listed in the verb inflection tables:
Noun pattern
Example
PE’ILA
± ¢ Ú
HIPA’ALUT
HAF’ALA
PI’UL
HITPA’ALUT
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Corresponding verb (and binyan) Å
± Ú
(PA’AL)
a breakage
break
³â¥ Þ¢ segregation
¥ © (NIF’AL) become segregated
¥
¥¢
distinction
distinguish
â碫
ç¢ «
a delay
delay
³â¥ Þ ³
¥ Þ ³ (HITPA’EL) segregate oneself
self-segregation
(HIF’IL)
(PI’EL)